Oehler v. Hoffman

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that a confidential relationship “exists when one person has gained the confidence of another and purports to act or advise with the other’s interest in mind”
• upholding a deed executed four days before the grantor’s death, despite a lack of capacity challenge, where the attorney who prepared the deed testified that the grantor “told him she wanted the property to go to the [grantees]”
• “The gist of the doctrine of confidential relationship is the presence of a dominant influence under which the act is presumed to have been done. [The] [p]urpose of the doctrine is to defeat and correct betrayals of trust and abuses of confidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).